Indexes: (search for articles/reports)

1. Academic search premier
   
     Examples:
   
   1. virtual reality and surgery
   2. SU artificial intelligence And TI ( medic* or health )
   3. robot* IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND medic* IN SU SUBJECT TERMS AND (scientific american OR technology review OR american scientist) IN SO JOURNAL NAME
   4. SU ( health care or healthcare ) And TI ( crisis or problem* )
   5. SU disaster relief and SU Myanmar
   6. SU medic* and SU disaster relief
   
   
2. Compendex
   (browse or search the thesaurus for terms to use)
   
     Examples:
   
   1. (medic* or health*) IN CONTROLLED TERM AND (disaster* OR technolog*) IN ALL FIELDS
   2. Under SELECT DATABASE uncheck GEOBASE; "Computer aided diagnosis" LIMITED TO EI CONTROLLED TERM AND ENGLISH AND TREATMENT TYPE: LITERATURE REVIEW AND "1990-2006"
   3. Under SELECT DATABASE uncheck GEOBASE; "medical computing" LIMITED TO MAIN HEADING AND "visual* OR imaging" LIMITED TO SUBJECT/TITLE/ABSTRACT AND BOTH LIMITED TO ENGLISH AND JOURNAL ARTICLE AND "1990-2006"
   4. homeland security and health*
   5. Under SELECT DATABASE uncheck GEOBASE; security systems and health care BOTH LIMITED TO EI CONTROLLED TERM
   
   
3. IEEE Xplore
   
     Examples: (using basic search)
   
   1. Robot* AND medic* (limit to INDEX TERMS and IEEE/IEE Journals)
   2. tissue engineering<in>de
   
   
4. Inspec
   (Examine the controlled and uncontrolled indexing in the full record of a citation to discover more search terms. The online thesaurus can help. Want a tutorial?)
   
     Examples: (using advanced search)
   
   1. (surgery or surgical) and robot* (Choose General Search and limit to dates 1994-2005; search for terms in Topic and limit to English and limit to Journal papers for document types)
   2. medic* and virtual reality (Choose General Search and limit to dates 1994-2005; search for terms in Topic with "Title only" checked and limit to English and limit to Journal papers for document types)
   
   
5. PubMed
   ( PubMed Guides, Tips, and Help
   MEDLINE via OVID and other versions of MEDLINE can also be used.
   Which MEDLINE do I use? )
   
     Examples:
   
   1. nanotechnology or nanostructures limit to MESH Terms and english language
      (Note: notice the Reviews tab; change to Citation display and examine the MESH Terms)
   2. Telemedicine limit to MESH Terms, Reviews and english language
   3. Telemedicine/trends limit to MESH Terms
   4. Robotics limit to english language
   
   
6. Web of Science
   (Web of Science can be used in the familiar way of keyword searching for articles, but Web of Science also provides other methods for tracking down useful articles. Want a Tutorial?)
   
     Example:
   
   • Click on Web of SCIENCE
   • Select Full Search
   • Select General Search
   • Enter the article title Tissue engineering of artificial organs (or The growth of tissue engineering or some other article title of a useful article) in TOPIC and search.
   • Click on the article title that is retrieved
   • Click on "Cited References" to see all the sources used to author this article.
   • Click on "Times Cited" to see who else used this article as a source.
   
   
7. WilsonWeb
   (Select the following: General Science Abstracts; The online thesaurus can help with the selection of terms.)
   
     Examples:
   
   • Telemedicine (sort by Peer Reviewed)
   
   
8. Patents
   (Try esp@cenet and Google Patents; Overview of Patents & Patent Searching)
     Example:
   
   • telemedicine

Journals:

Sample Articles:

• NYT's series on patients: ((LSU({SERIES & SPECIAL REPORTS}) AND LSU({PATIENTS})))
• NYT's series on health care: ((LSU({SERIES & SPECIAL REPORTS}) AND (LSU({HEALTH CARE}) OR LSU({HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CARE}))))

1. Artificial consciousness: Utopia or real possibility?
2. Artificial organs
3. Asynchronous web-based patient-centered home telemedicine system
4. A sharper picture of health
5. Biochips beyond DNA: technologies and applications (Biotechnology Annual Review, 9:1-149, 2003)
6. The Bionic Human (special issue of Science)
7. Brain-machine interfaces: computational demands and clinical needs meet basic neuroscience
8. Cellular/tissue engineering - promises and challenges
9. Controlling Robots with the Mind
10. Current Opinion on Computer-Aided Surgical Navigation and Robotics: Role in the Treatment of Sports-Related Injuries
11. The great divide - the human-machine interface. Issues in the control of prostheses, manipulators, and other human machine systems
12. Pervasive healthcare
13. Pervasive healthcare (Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine)
14. RoboSurgeons
15. Robotic surgery: a current perspective
16. Smart surgical tools and augmenting devices
17. Survey of utilisation of fuzzy technology in Medicine and Healthcare
18. Telemedicine: an emerging health care technology
19. A tele-operated mobile ultrasound scanner using a light-weight robot
20. The Unseen Genome: Beyond DNA

Sample Books:

1. AccessScience
2. 2000-2005 world outlook for biotechnology
3. 2000-2005 world outlook for health care services
4. Artificial morality: virtuous robots for virtual games
5. Biotechnology: science, engineering, and ethical challenges for the twenty-first century
6. Cosmetic surgery: the cutting edge of commercial medicine in America
7. Disaster medicine
8. Intelligent robots and autonomous agents
9. Knovel online interactive books (in Engineering & Science)
10. Machines in our hearts: the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care
11. Biomedical Device Technology : Principles And Design
12. Medical innovation at the crossroads
13. Medicine by design
14. The prosthetic impulse : from a posthuman present to a biocultural future

Websites:

1. Bioethics Information Resources
2. Biomaterials Network
3. Biomedical Engineering Network
4. Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics
5. Biotechnology Industry Organization
6. Biotechnology Institute: Student Resources
7. Disaster Research Center
8. DOEgenomes
9. FEMA
10. Globalspec Engineering Search Engine
11. Google
    
    
    Try this custom search into Google ...
    (search terms: medicine, medical or health* are already included)
    
    keyword 
    
    phrase 
    
    include  edu, org and gov just edu just org just gov  sites
    
    
12. Google Scholar
    
    
    Try this custom search into Google Scholar ...
    
    (searches the titles of articles)
    
    
13. HealthWeb
14. Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
15. Nanomedicine
16. National Center for Biotechnology Information
17. NIH
18. NSF: Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems
19. Scirus (Science-specific search engine including patents; The advanced search provides helpful limits)
20. Telemedicine information exchange
21. Tissue Engineering